Thelma & Louise: Rape Culture, Mudflaps, and Vaginal Horizons
Dayna McLeod
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Essay Canada 2023 English 0:06:14
A video essay that isolates the title characters’ rage in the 1991 film, Thelma and Louise (directed by Ridley Scott) against personal and systemic patriarchal violence.
Using animation, multiscreen, and supercut editing, this video essay supposes what happens when supporting male characters are removed, erased, or diminished to focus our attention on Thelma and Louise’s response(s) to their violent acts. It also imagines mudflap girls—now women—talking and fighting back against their oppressor.
Finally, this video essay transforms Thelma and Louise’s suicidal leap into a deep dive of the vagina, often essentialized as synonymous with the female body.
Published in the special issue, Right to Rage: Subjectivity and Activism edited by Barbara Zecchi and Diana Fernández Romero, in Teknokultura: Journal of Digital Culture and Social Movements.